AMSA Connect phone services may have longer wait times on Monday 1 June 2026 while we operate with reduced staffing due to the Reconciliation Day Public Holiday in Canberra. Our search and rescue team will continue to operate during this time.
In the April edition we tell you what we are doing to support our industry during the COVID-19 period, we provide information about passive fire safety measures, give guidance on inspecting internal buoyancy or sealed internal hull voids, and more.
Most services for operators and crew of domestic commercial vessels are now provided by us instead of the Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics.
An accountable authority may issue a Public Interest Certificate under the Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Act 2018 when it is considered to not be in the public interest for a particular procurement process to be suspended.
From 1 July 2018, new survey requirements for domestic commercial vessels apply. This includes changes to marine order 503 to apply the new periodic survey requirements to all vessels required to be in survey—existing, transitional and new vessels.
This exemption allows people to work as a master or chief mate on a vessel operating in the Great Barrier Reef or Torres Strait Zone or from a Queensland island without the required certificate.
Hours of Work and Rest – 01 May 2022 to 17 June 2022AMSA conducted an Hours of Work and Rest Focused Inspection Campaign (FIC) over the period 01 May 2022 to 17 June 2022.
In this edition we talk about Marine Surveyor Accreditation Guidance Manual – Part 2 , we include a Case Study about Compliance action on an AMS’s accreditation and decks on domestic commercial vessels
Several national law general exemptions have been reissued for a period of 3 to 5 years with changes. Check if you need to reapply for your exemption, and that you still meet eligibility requirements.
A marine notice provides important safety related information, general guidance and details about upcoming changes to legislation to the shipping and maritime community.
On 22 January 1982 at approximately 9 pm, the oil tanker Esso Gippsland was in the process of loading at Port Stanvac jetty, South Australia, when a large quantity of industrial fuel oil leaked from the air vent and ullage port of its no.2 starboard tank.
Survey modifiers are high risk operations and vessel attributes that change the survey and other requirements that would otherwise apply to the vessel.